"Le ragazze bevono l'acqua."
Translation:The girls drink the water.
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Sometimes definite articles in other languages are used grammatically, but not necessarily meaningfully. By that I mean, if you say, The girls drink water, it is still definite. The girls drink the water is also definite. shrug it's complicated.
Then again, perhaps this translation is wrong.
there is a good post explaining it here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/1012366/When-to-use-the-definite-article
They should have a chart or something available that depicts the different verb endings and where they are meant to be used. I can't do this without completely understanding.
try it on the computer it has charts and notes you can look at, but I agree the mobile version sucks
Thanks , didn't realise thus was available /there was a difference.
If you tap the light bulb next to the key on each practice session, there is a lesson that lays it all out for you.
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Type in any Italian verb here: https://www.italian-verbs.com/italian-verbs/conjugation.php?parola=entrare
Why does ragazze not translate as boys? I have probably missed something, but I would like to understand why what looks like the plural of 'boys' is not in fact the plural of boys. I wrote 'The boys drink the water' and was marked wrong.
Ragazze is the plural of ragazza, "girls". Ragazzi is the plural of ragazzo, "boys".
"Le", in this context, is a plural form, yes, but not for "she". "Le" in this context is the same as the English "the". It has the same meaning as the singular "la", as well as others like "lo", "il", "i", and "l'". Definite articles and how they affect other words in Italian can take some getting used to.
"Lei" (which is pronounced similarly to le) is the word for "she".
Is that the question you were asking?
the usage of l'acqua vs acqua in this instance is very confusing as both would be correct
Are the words like 'sono', 'bevono' pronounced like sOno/bEvono or sonO/bevOno? I don't trust that robot voice but don't know the rules of pronunciation
The first one with the accent being on the first syllable. You can also use the Forvo website and type in the words you want pronounced. The website has recordings of native speakers pronouncing words.
There was no acqua in the previous lessons, I couldn't have known how to type it.
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it has been telling me to use all for so long and this time i finally use it and i'm wrong......
I dont know. Ragazze is the plural for girls. Ive been told in all my language studies including spsnish, french, portuguese, and espersnto to use the masculine form when speaking of a group of mixed gender.
Le ragazze means girls right? Maybe kids as well but it shouldnt be wrong answer "the girls"
This seems like an incorrect correction to me. Other sentences with l'acqua have been translated as "the water".
If you want to say the children drink the water you would use the masculine form: ragazzi. When you are speaking of a group of mixed gender you always use the masculine form
Why do we need "the" before plural nouns, what if I say Girls drink water as Raggaze bevono l'aqcua
It's the difference between "The dogs are barking." and "Dogs are barking." The first implies specificity, you and the people you're speaking to know who "the dogs" are, but it is just a general statement if you say "dogs are barking".
"Gli" is the masculine plural and "Le" is the feminine plural. E.g "Gli uomini" = "The men" and "Le ragazze" = "The girls".
I know that when you have two vowels next to each other, as in 'o' in bevono and the 'a' in acqua that the apostrophe 'l' is used for smoother pronunciation. It's like the words 'a' and 'an' in English. In English we wouldn't say, 'The girls ate a apple.' We say, 'The girls ate an apple.' Hope that's helpful.
Should the accurate answer be "the girls drink the water".....adding the in front of water, as l'acqua means the water, and just acqua is water?
The instruction said "Tap what you hear". I did. But Duolinguo wants a translation. Fail.
Some times I click the microphone to speak but streight away it says I'm wrong when I haven't said anything yet. Does this happen to anyone else?
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The girls drink THE water implies speific water, like the water in the pitcher on the counter. The girls drink water means ANY water from anywhere. By saying l'acqua, translated to English, means THE water, no alternatives. You can't learn Italian from English without knowing the visictitudes of English!!!!!
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Previous question stated that gli uomini bevono acqua. Not l'acqua answer the men drink water therefore l'acqua is the water and in my opinion correct
I guarantee that when Duo asks us to translate this sentence to English, if you put the water, it will be wrong.
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I think they forgot to put an option called "the" when there's this "l'" in the sentence or something I don't know but can someone correct me?
These translation exercises are misleading. If you translate Le ragazze bevono l'acqua with The girls drink water, the app says it should be 'the' water. But if you then translate Gli uomini bevono l'acqua as The men drink the water, the app says the article is incorrect (which makes more sense).
It should be "the water" instead of just water because when you say "the" you are referring to some water you know, for example "she drank the water from the bottle" while just water would be any water, like this "she drank water" idk if it makes sense i tried to explain as good as i could
It is so unfair they didn't take my answer with 'the', and many people say here that it can be without, but sometimes I did vice versa and where it could be without an article again was a mistake.
You basically have to just take Your primary language out the occasion and hit the default button in Your mind and go with the flow.
If You cant Physically & Mentally do this, then You've got no chance of learning any other new language.
